Flood. The section that the Michigan parent was referring to contained a detailed description of Frank's genitalia including her understanding of the clitoris and labia. The mother reported that her daughter felt uncomfortable with the passage in Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. The Definitive Edition and personally thought that it was inappropriate for a teacher to be giving this material out to the kids when it's really the parent's job to give the students this information. Flood Gail Horalek subsequently requested to have the definitive or full edition of the diary be pulled in favor of the expurgated version effectively removing the passages in question. On top of her request, Gail Horalek felt that the school should have clearly communicated the differences between the definitive edition and the expurgated version instead of blindsiding the parents Murvosh On May 3, 2013. A committee in the Northville Public Schools district had met to discuss the request presented to them Murvosh. The committee had reached a unanimous decision to continue the use of Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition as an option within the seventh grade English language, arts curriculum effectively rejecting the submitted request Murvosh. In the case of Northville School, District Anne Frank's diary was challenged on the grounds of inappropriate sexual themes. Another incident occurred in Culpeper County Virginia in November 2009 that challenged Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition on similar grounds.
A Culpeper mother of an eighth-grader at Floyd T Binns Middle School was troubled by the reading material given to her child Chandler. She complained that it contains inappropriate sexual and homosexual themes when referring to the definitive version of Anne Frank s diary. Ashenfelter One of the passages in question references Frank's vagina and her comprehension of sex with men. Another passage the mother felt unnerved by was an entry in which Frank describes having erotic feelings for another girl Chandler. The Virginian parent never filed a formal complaint and the school did not follow its own rules for objections to educational materials, which requires a complaint to be made in writing and reviewed by a committee before any action is taken. Ashenfelter Instead the Director of Instruction for Culpeper County Schools James Allen reportedly told media outlets that what we have asked is that this particular edition will not be taught. I don't want to make a big deal out of this. So we listened to the parent and we pulled it when explaining why the decision to pull Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition, from the curriculum was made Strauss.
The book was originally removed from the curriculum in Culpeper County Schools but in the following year of 2010, the district's superintendent Bobbi Johnson stated that the school system had never formally removed a version of Anne Frank's diary from classrooms following a parental complaint that some passages were objectionable Chandler. In order to correct the previous errors made in 2009, the school system revisited the request. The revision was prompted by the hailstorm of criticism online and brought international attention to the 7 600 student school system in rural Virginia that was originally provoked by James Allen, the Direction of Instruction Chandler. In addition to the evident mishandling of the removal of Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition by the school system, the Culpeper mother involved stated that she did not want the book removed, she was asking that her daughter not be required to read the book aloud as the class had been doing Chandler. Once a committee was able to review the material the superintendent announced that the book will remain a part of English classes, although it may be taught at a different grade level Chandler. The final verdict of Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition in Virginia was to keep it in the curriculum instead of discarding the reading material altogether. A noticeable part of the objections toward Anne Frank's diary is due to the sexual aspects of some of the passages in the definitive version. But Frank's revelations were not the only reasons that called for a ban In 1983 the Alabama Textbook Committee called for a proposal to ban The Diary of Anne Frank on the grounds that the book was a real downer Nazaryan. The tragic nature of the holocaust themes in Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition is largely to blame for the proposed banning. The book was then proposed to the Alabama Textbook Committee but ultimately rejected. The textbook committee's reason to suppress the diary was deemed so unbelievable it made a fifth place on ALA's Ten most far fetched reasons to ban a book, Ashenfelter.
Although many of the attempted bans on Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl The Definitive Edition have taken place in modern society the censorship of Anne Frank began long before After Frank had perished during the war period only her diary remained. The last surviving member of her family Otto Frank retrieved her diary after the second world war came to a close and preserved it. There were many companies that could have published her works but the publishing company Contact in Amsterdam was finally decided upon. The Story of Anne Even though Anne's diary was a unique piece of literature the publication process would not be easy. The publisher of Contact felt that Anne writes too freely about her sexuality in her journal. The Story of Anne Censorship would need to be made before publishing her diary. The director requested that the passages regarding Anne's sexual exploration be removed and the company's chief editor also makes some small changes. The Story of Anne, Anne Frank's journal also saw some revisions at the request of Otto Frank in which he removed a comment about his fondness for talking about farting and going to the lavatory which Anne thought was repulsive Macdonald. Other comments Anne had made were censored to accommodate the common views of the time period including the idea that its not wrong for a man to bring a little experience to marriage. After all it has nothing to do with the marriage itself, Macdonald. Censorship was also applied to Anne's emotions about others in the household and the hard truth she would tell. One instance of her candor shines through in a diary entry about her caretaker's engagement in which she states that none of us are particularly pleased. Bertus may be a nice steady athletic young man but Bep doesn't love him and to me that's enough reason to advise her against marrying him when voicing the house's feelings on the news Macdonald. After removing all of Anne's intimate passages the director was ready to publish the diary under the title of Het Achterhuis meaning The Secret Annex, The Story of Anne.
Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl. The Definitive Edition was continually challenged on the grounds that Frank expressed her journey of sexual discovery and her innermost feelings in striking detail. Her voice may have been challenged many of times before but the uncensored definitive edition remains a crucial part of history that tells the brave unfiltered story of a girl in hiding. I feel that Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl, The Definitive Edition should never be censored Anne Frank was exploring her own sexuality at a young age as most children do and it is perfectly normal to present it in a classroom. The Holocaust was an imperative part of history and to see it through the eyes of this young girl makes for an extremely interesting perspective. Her book provides insight into the lives of those affected that truly everyone could benefit from. I believe that censoring Anne's diary would be equivalent to erasing history itself as her unfiltered voice represents the true feelings of the time instead of an official document or autobiography. Removing the extra 30 percent of Anne's diary removes her true voice. The only way to record history to its fullest extent would be to leave Anne's journal the same as she had left it. Works Cited Ashenfelter Morgan Anne Frank's Diary Too Explicit for School The Nation 10 Feb 2010; Chandler Michael Alison Anne Frank's Diary. Is Back on Culpeper Schools Reading List The Washington Post 2 Feb 2010; Flood Alison Anne Frank's Diary in US Schools Censorship Battle The Guardian 7 May 2013; Karolides Nicholas J et al Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl 120 Banned Books Censorship Histories of World Literature Facts On File Inc 2011 pp 401 405; Macdonald Marianne The Things That Anne Was Really Frank About The Independent 21 Oct 1996; Murvosh Marta Update Michigan School District Rejects Parent s Challenge to Anne Frank's Diary School Library Journal 13 May 2013; Nazaryan Alexander The Banned Books of Alabama The Atlantic 15 July 2013; The Story of Anne Frank Anne Frank's Diary. Is Published Anne Frank House Anne Frank Stichting 19 Apr 2010 www Anne frank org en Anne Frank Publication of the diary Anne Franks diary is published Accessed 14 December 2017; Strauss Valerie Taking Anne Frank off Shelves Indefensible The Washington Post WP Company 28 Jan 2010 voices washingtonpost com answer sheet literature taking anne frank off shelves html Accessed 14 December 2017.
The changes were agreed upon and the diary was published on June 25, 1947, as the expurgated version Anne Frank The Diary of a Young Girl. The Definitive Edition has been repeatedly challenged throughout history from the moment of its publication to modern-day school systems. Areas around the United States restricted or have attempted to restrict access to Anne Frank's diary including states such as Michigan, Virginia, and Alabama. The school districts in each state and in one case the state itself claimed Frank's journal contained inappropriate themes for children reading the material. Anne Frank wrote about her sexual discoveries and affections toward others in vivid detail which was the main source of the outcries Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl. The Definitive Edition is not just a shocking piece of literature in modern society but during the early post-wartime period the censorship was considered not just an option but a necessity. Anne Frank had her voice silenced in various passages making it appear as if she was a saint when in reality she was an ordinary normal girl with a talent for writing Macdonald.
